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The PADI Instructor Development Program certifies you as a PADI Open Water
Scuba Instructor. In addition, it further develops your leadership and teaching
abilities to the instructor level and certifies you to teach PADI programs.
To qualify for the PADI Instructor Development program, you must:
- Be certified as a PADI Assistant Instructor or a PADI Divemaster, or as an
instructor with another recreational diver training organization.
- Be at least 18 years old.
- Be fit for diving and submit a medical form signed by a physician.
- Have been a certified diver for at least six months and logged at least 60
open water dives with experience in night, deep and navigation prior to beginning
the InstructorDevelopment Program, and have been a certified diver for at least
6 months and logged at least 100 dives prior to entering the instructor examination.
- Submit proof of CPR training (certification within last 24 months).
During the PADI Instructor Development program, you'll learn the PADI System
of diver education, standards and procedures, effective academic teaching presentations,
teaching in confined water, conducting open water training dives and additional
related topics. You'll learn this material one of two ways; through the PADI Instructor
Development Program (IDC) or the PADI Instructor Orientation Program (IOC). Please
note that the IOC is an option available only if you're an instructor that is
current with another certification organization and wish to become a PADI Instructor.
After successful completion of the IDC or IOC, you must successfully complete
the PADI Instructor Examination (IE). You will be evaluated on dive theory, academic
teaching, confined-water (pool) teaching, open-water teaching and general diving
skills and professionalism.
As a PADI Open Water Scuba Instructor you can conduct the entire range of PADI
experience programs and PADI diver programs, from Open Water Diver through Divemaster
(except for specialties and PADI Medic First Aid, which require specific Specialty
Diver Instructor and MEDIC FIRST AID® Instructor ratings).
After successfully completing your PADI IDC/IOC and IE, you'll receive a certification
card and certificate denoting this rating. You'll also become a member of PADI
and receive benefits, including the ability to purchase professional liability
insurance (which may be required to conduct some activities).
Instructor development course required materials include:
- Instructor Manual
- IDC Candidate Workbook
- Peak Performance Buoyancy Instructor Outline
- Project AWARE Instructor Outline
- Confined Water Cue Cards
- Open Water Cue Cards
- Confined Water Presentation Slate
- Open Water Presentation Slate
- Best of the Undersea Journal
- Law and the Diving Professional
- The Business of Diving
- Open Water Diver Quizzes and Exams
- Rescue Diver Final Exam Booklet
- Divemaster Final Exam Booklet
Please note that PADI Exam Booklets are not sold to candidates before they
earn certification at that level.
IDC Optional Materials include:
- PADI instructor Manual Digital Version DC-ROM
- PADI Adventures in Diving Instructor Slate
- PADI Rescue Diver Instructor Slate
All IDC candidates are also required to have current version student materials
from the PADI Open Water Diver, PADI Advanced
Open Water Diver, PADI Rescue Diver and
PADI Divemaster courses.
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